Elie Wiesel

Eliezer Elie Wiesel KBE is an American Romanianborn Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel Laureate. He is the author of 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper Algemeiner Journal. He is currently the Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania , Maramure, Romania, in the Carpathian Mountains. His parents were Sarah Feig and Shlomo Wiesel. At home, Wiesels family spoke Yiddish most of the time, but also German, Hungarian, and Romanian. Wiesels mother, Sarah, was the daughter of Dodye Feig, a celebrated Vizhnitz Hasid and farmer from a nearby village. Dodye was active and trusted within the community. In the early years of his life, Dodye had spent a few months in jail for having helped Polish Jews who escaped and were hungry.

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